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` To aZZ 'whew/t may concern.-

. Be it known UNITED 'STATES`Y PATENT Gwen.' t

MA-nous onlus-min,' 0F NEW YORK, N,

y .PicTURE-FRAME.

Specification formin'gpart of Letters Patent No.' 476,382, dated February 14,Vv

have invented an Improyeine Frames; and'I do Figa II is a side View g Fig. III, a section onV V.the line A B, Fig. I.

My improvement relates chiefly to the plate f or sheetthatholds the photograph or other picture in place, and forms the back" of vthe frame. i Itis so constructed of iezzibleanaterial that the 'picturev can stand in an vinclined position upon a table, or it may b e attachedto a buttonhole and used as .a badge, orghungfveri .tically upon the wall ofa.room` these`ditierent 'ned by the use cfa single' the use of any otherparts or pieces. The pictnre can also be placed in the common gagnerreotype case of the ordinary thickness.-

that LLMAn dus ORMsBELo/f o the city of New York, and State-of NewYork,-

f cut' near the 'base' purpose.

Y l presence of-` 'The frame Orland mat- D, commonly made o f -1 f thin .-metal,- aref the usual form, and the piet-,4;

is placed behind the niat. In thel rear f this lis the back-G, madeiof one piece of .ure AE thin metal or other flexible material, which is cut through to form the lipsgor'tongues F, Ff, Y and Gf. -Either offthese -tongues may vbe -sightly raisdginserted "in" .b'uttonfhole or other opening, and pressed backvnea-rly to their 'original position, or the long tongue G may be bent backward, as yin f Fig. II, to forni a brace or support for sustaining the frame upon a table in an inclined position, I vertically upon a nail, I, which enters the hole'H,

Whatclaim, anddesire to secure byLetters Patent-,as

' The iiexibleplate forxning the back o faI picture-frame, in combination with the tongues er lips cnt out of and. made from the back or plate to form attachmentsor-supports to the picture,

- substantially VAas herein'described."

. MAnoUs -on.usisnnf` CHAsfDANFoRTH COBB, H. W...Qianus13'EE..:.`V 1

or it maybe-- turned upward, as in Fig. III, and hung of vthe tongue G for this 

